Introducing: Health vs Hype with the American Medical Association
Got a symptom? There's an influencer for that. A supplement for that. A subreddit, a detox, a cold plunge for that.
But what actually works — and what could actually hurt you?
Introducing: Health vs. Hype with the American Medical Association — a science-backed health podcast that breaks down viral wellness trends, health misinformation, and the advice flooding your feed.
Emmy-nominated science communicator Trace Dominguez sits down with influencers, the curious, and most importantly doctors to fact-check viral health claims – everything from intermittent fasting and protein maxxing to creatine. Cold plunges and more! Not to cancel the trends, not to hype them more, but to understand them.
Your health is your greatest asset. Don't leave it to an algorithm.
Let’s slow the scroll…and start asking better questions.
Health vs. Hype: new episodes drop every other week starting April 14th. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Your social media feed says eat more proteins. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: It's about hitting those protein goals as I builled, muscle in and lift weights. 00:00:07 Speaker 1: Track your sleep. 00:00:08 Speaker 3: I almost treat it like a game where I want to get a good sleep score. 00:00:12 Speaker 1: Boost your votwo max. The VO two max number itself puts you in a ranking like almost like a status. You're intrigued, but confused. 00:00:21 Speaker 2: I was getting all kinds of conflicting information when I looked things up. 00:00:25 Speaker 1: It was very confusing. You want control over your health and you want trusted information, So where can you turn. Welcome to Health Versus Height, the show where we take the loudest wellness trends on the Internet and ask the questions only science can answer. What's real, what's exaggerated? And what is completely wrong? And why are we so quick to believe it? 00:00:48 Speaker 3: And I really believed in all of his philosophies and what he said. 00:00:51 Speaker 1: I'm traced him Inguz. Each episode we show the science behind viral health claims, from high protein diets to cold plunges, detoxing to sleep tech obsession, and we talk to the people in the middle of it, all influencers. I made a TikTok about my life story, and sure enough I blew up immediately the curious what is this mask that they're wearing? 00:01:10 Speaker 2: And so that kind of originally sparked my curiosity. 00:01:14 Speaker 1: But more importantly doctors. 00:01:15 Speaker 2: So I bring patients into clinic and you know, I take a detailed history, I listen to what their concerns are and researchers. 00:01:22 Speaker 3: This is a part of my job researching lifestyle factors, and diet is a major component of that. 00:01:29 Speaker 1: Not to cancel the trend, not to hype it more, but to understand it. With so many strong opinions floating around, we think it's worth slowing down, getting curious and checking the evidence. Because health isn't a hashtag. It's complicated, it's personal, and it deserves more than a thirty second reel. Starting April fourteenth, listen to Health Versus Hype with the American Medical Association on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, where we slow the scroll and start asking better questions.